Viletones founder helped kick start a punk rock movement in Toronto | Unpublished
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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: June 27, 2025 - 16:55

Viletones founder helped kick start a punk rock movement in Toronto

June 27, 2025
On May 4, 1977, Toronto punk rock pioneers the Viletones played the Colonial Underground, a basement club on Yonge Street. Singer and group founder Steven Leckie had previously typed up a manifesto criticizing the city’s rock music elite as being antiquated. “The war must start,” wrote the 19-year-old who controversially called himself Nazi Dog. “The new order is the Viletones.”


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